32
The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah
is here.
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No one, when he has lighted a lamp, puts
it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a lampstand that those who come in may see the light.
34
The lamp of the body is the eye; therefore when thine eye is sincere, thy whole body also is full of light; but when
thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
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Take heed therefore if the light which is in thee is darkness.
36
If thy whole body therefore
is full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light as when the bright shining of a lamp doth give thee light.
37
And as he spoke, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him, and he went in and sat down to food.
38
And when the Pharisee saw
it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.
39
And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
40
Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
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But rather give alms {lit. do acts of mercy} of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
42
But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs and pass over the judgment and the charity of God; these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.